It is difficult to put Salman Khan under a specific definition, as he is an actor, producer and TV presenter, presenting the reality TV show “Big Boss” since 2010, supporting humanitarian and charitable causes, but at the same time very controversial off-screen, convicted of premeditated murder when he ran over With his car, more than 5 people, and he was also convicted in a poaching case and sentenced to 5 years in prison.
But that did not reduce his overwhelming popularity, and his being considered one of the most successful Indian actors, and Forbes magazine included him in the list of the 100 best entertainers of 2015 with the 71st place, which he shared with superstar Amitabh Bachchan, so who is the real Salman Khan amid all these facts?
Son of the movie royal family
Salman Khan, the eldest son of Salim Khan, is an actor, film producer and screenwriter. He has provided many stories and screenplays for some of the most famous Bollywood films with writer Javed Akhtar, becoming the first screenwriters known by name and star in Hindi cinema.
This duo created a cinematic revolution during the seventies of the last century, as they formulated the form of Indian films of this period and beyond, and laid the foundation for its recurring themes and structure of its highly successful films, but rather introduced new cinematic genres such as "Masala films" that combine action, romance and comedy .
Salim Khan made the details of the angry young man who launched Amitabh Bachchan's acting career, and his films are still among the highest-grossing Indian films so far.
He is, of course, the founder of the Salim Khan Film Family, as the father of 3 Bollywood actors, the most famous of whom are Salman Khan in addition to Sohail Khan, Arbaaz Khan.
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Salman Khan, born in 1965, was raised between a Muslim father and a Hindu mother, and ancestors belonging to one of the famous Afghan tribes, where he was able to speak Hindi, English and Marathi. 1988.
Small roles, then go to stardom
Salman Khan made his first role in 1988 in the movie Biwi Ho To Aisi, where he played a small but successful role. He went straight to the lead roles in Maine Pyar Kiya in 1989 which became One of the highest-grossing in India at that time, and for which he received many nominations for the Best Actor Award, and the film was dubbed into several languages, including English and Spanish.
In the 1990s, he became a co-factor in many successful films, especially romantic ones, as well as gained great popularity and many awards, and one of his most important films of this era was "Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!), which became the most popular film of 1994. And it received global revenues of $ 18 million, becoming the highest-grossing in India for this year, and in the list of the highest-grossing Bollywood cinemas so far.
He has been famous since the beginning of the millennium for his ability to present romantic comedy action films, a genre that his father created decades ago in Indian cinema, before Hollywood attracted him to present the American movie “Marigold” about the love affair between an Indian and an American, which did not achieve the expected breakthrough. To return to Bollywood.
Between crime and punishment
Despite the huge popularity of Salman Khan among fans of Indian cinema, his personal life has always been a disaster for his public life, for drinking alcohol while driving, he was arrested in 2002, after his car crashed into a bakery in Mumbai and killed a tramp who was sleeping on the sidewalk, and others were injured.
He was charged with manslaughter, and his driver was charged with perjury to mislead the court, as he falsely claimed that he was driving the car at the time of the accident. In 2015 Khan was acquitted of all charges, and the government contested that acquittal a year later.
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In 2002, he witnessed another scandal that attracted the attention of the media and the public, after his separation from the star Aishwarya Rai accused him of harassing and stalking her, and her father filed an official complaint against him, and a recording of a phone call with her appeared, recorded by the Mumbai police, threatening to force her to appear at a party held by a person affiliated with an Indian criminal organization.
However, the authenticity of this tape was not proven by the government forensic laboratory, and therefore no judicial charges were filed against Salman Khan in this incident.
Salman Khan's dramatic personal life included spending a week in prison in 2007, before being released on court bail, when he was accused of poaching endangered antelopes under the Wildlife Protection Act.
A lawsuit was also filed against him for using firearms with an expired license, and he was sentenced to prison, and to this day his case in court is being deliberated, and it has not been finalized.
This is in addition to the many statements he made in the media or through his Twitter account, which caused him a lot of negative criticism, and conflict with people in power, including the Prime Minister, and he was forced more than once to withdraw these comments and opinions, delete the tweets and apologize for them.
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On the other hand, Salman Khan is known for his charitable works, most notably the founding of the “Being Human Foundation” in Mumbai, which provides education and health care services to India’s poor, and is funded mainly through sales of merchandise from the brand that Created by Salman Khan, with the support of many Bollywood personalities, it has spread to more than 15 countries.
Salman Khan is a character full of contradictions, he cannot be classified among the good guys or the bad guys, but he is certainly one of the most important Bollywood stars, who managed to continue and succeed despite the bad shadow that his complex personal life cast on him.